Intended for teachers, curriculum designers, and administrators, this annotated list of recommended curriculum guides provides models of carefully planned, well-written curricula, in the English language arts. The booklet's three sections contain curriculum guides recommended in 1985, 1984, and 1983. In each section, the guides are organized into…

This practical guide discusses the challenges teachers will face when programming for language--that is, in planning an effective language program for their students. The guide includes ways to meet the challenges; suggestions for what to read, attend to, observe, write, and who to talk to; points to ponder before programming; and a model for…

This catalog lists both recommended and non-recommended bibliographies of instructional materials for California kindergarten through eighth grade English/language arts teachers and explains the choices of the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission. The California State Board of Education adopted the commission's…

Author discussed a new syllabus, a new image of what an educated man ought to be. (Author/RK)

Comments on eight changes initiated in the late sixties that would alter English programs during the seventies. (RB)

Liberal and conservative approaches to English still competing. (JH)

Today's revolution in communications has made a shambles of the traditional English curriculum. Here is a nonprescriptive exegesis of what has happened. (Editor)

Examines the impulses that led to the curriculum reform movements in the United States and Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. (RB)

Argues that the discipline of English needs to become a truly interdisciplinary study, adding history, philosophy, psychology, ethics, and politics as areas of concern. (RB)

Speech presented at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Boston University School of Education, May 4, 1968, and based on the author's doctoral dissertation (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1968).

Article based on a speech delivered at the Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 29, 1968.

TO SURVEY THE TEACHING OF LINGUISTICS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, THE EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE (ETS) ASKED 650 ENGLISH TEACHERS TO COMPLETE QUESTIONNAIRES DESIGNED TO ELICIT INFORMATION ABOUT THE KIND AND EXTENT OF THEIR LINGUISTICS TRAINING, THE NATURE AND SIZE OF THE POPULATIONS STUDYING LINGUSTICS IN THEIR CLASSES, AND THE VOCABULARY AND CONTENT…

A SEPARATE MAJOR COURSE OF STUDIES WITHIN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1966 AT TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WHOSE MAIN INTEREST LIES IN GENERAL LINGUISTICS AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES. THE STUDENTS' QUALIFICATIONS AND THE REQUIRED COURSES ARE DESCRIBED BRIEFLY. (BN)

At Springfield Technical High School (Massachusetts) tenth grade students are required to spend three six-week periods in writing laboratory classes. As the students write, the teacher moves from student to student for short conferences, checking with each student twice during each class period. Students proceed in a three-step process and are…

This edition of the "Virginia English Bulletin" is devoted primarily to articles about multiple-elective programs in high school English classes. These articles include: (1) "Multiple Electives in the English Curriculum" by R. Baird Shuman; (2) "Creative Dramatics: A Natural for the Multiple Electives Program" by…